The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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its public schools open, but supports LOO sa
looms
IT takes "A, 800, 900 gallons Of oil a year to keep
the railways of Great Britain going, and the cost
is nearly S9,00O,000
THERE is restaurant in London where only
those eat who are afflicted with corpulency, the
, food being entirely anti-fat.
THERE are now %, 900 less Irish soldiers in the
British army than there were twenty years ago.
Engilshmen have taken their places.
The Bolivar (Tenn.) Bulletin will be given free
one year to the man or woman who will explain
the causes and effects of female beauty.
THE Dominion of Canada is in debt to the ex-
tent of $22s. 500. 600 fully $50 per head of popu
lation The Dominion debt has increased
-, 49, 500 since June /.
RENA Brown, a girl Of Akron, O., ran long
splinter under her finger nail She pulled it out
herself, and then went into a spasm and lay ap-
parently dead for four hours.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Gallatin county, Ten
nessee issued $4,000 in bonds. More than
S1,010000 in interest has since been paid on
them. but the bonds themselves have never
been redeemed.
AN INEVITABLE EXPERIENCE has been had by
New Bedford whaler, just heard from in the
Arctic regions, where she has teen frozen in"
for eleven months, with the thermometer part
of the time down to 56o below zero.
THE body of Swiss tourist, who persisted
four years ago when ascending one of the peaks
in Canton Valais, has just been found in perfect
preservation. 1t was completely incased Ill ice,
which had thus arrested natural decay.
THE sales of Beaver, Col, real estate for the
first ten months of 1886 amounted TO $780,
083 80, and the sales for the first ten months Of
1887 were $21 s24 $50 70 a gain in real estate
nj for he lat TER
A BILL has been passed by the viceregal coun-
Gil of Indiafor the protection of wild birds. The
chief object of the measure is to check the large
slaughter of certain birds for whose plumage
there is demand in the European markets.
SHRILL CRIES of "Oh, mamma Oh, mamma"
brought New Lisbon, Pa, people to a creek to
find, instead of drowning child, Miss Henrietta
Arter's pet crow complacently practicing his
tayorite phrase. picked up from the neighboring
children
A COLUMN of brick masonry, about twenty
feet high, is still standing, overgrown with ivy,
amid a group of fine old trees, on the James
river. 1t is all that remains of the church
erected by the jamestown colony early in the
seventeenth century
A NEGRO at Eden Station, Miss. on last Satur-
day ate twelve boxes of sardines in the space of
thirty minutes and then asked for a box of
potted ham, which was refused him. He says
1t IS a hard country where a man can't buy
enough to eat with his money.
A YOUNG MAN at Tiffin, O., courted young
lady until o'clock in the morning When he
started to go home he found the door fastened
with wires so that he could not open it, When
he tried to crawl out of a window he was
arrested as burglar and had to be identified
by the girl.
THE pocket sewing machine, to introduce
which company was formed in England, and
shares sold for general investment under a very
glowing prospectus, is now said TO be a failure,
and the maDipulatorS of the company are
| charged with deliberately getting up the scheme
to Swlndle Investors.
LONDON appears to be much better fixed in the
matter Of school accommodations than most of
the large cities the other side of the Atlantic
At the recent reassembling of the School Board
the Chairman, Rev: j. b. Diggle, stated that
there are now facilities in London for teaching
657, 1897 children, while there are only $685. 58
names on the school rolls"
A CONTINGENT of the Salvation Army on land
ing at Bombay lately not only announced that
they had definitely adopted Indian dress, but
indian food native paper commenting on
this says: They then had their first Indian
dinner on rice and curry, which they declared
to be the most delicious dish they had ever
eaten. Our people car learn an infinite deal
from the Salvationists.
JOHN BRIGHT recently wrote a letter in which
he said; lam not in favor of what is called a
Labor party in Parliament. The best representa-
tlves OF industry in past time have not been
labOrerS in the common sense. Mr.. Hume was
not a laborer, nor was Mr.. Golden. nor is Mr.
Charles Nillers, nor am l, and yet how much
have we and many others done on behalf of the
bulk OF our laooring population!"
THE native merchants of China are said, to be
inveterate swindlers A foreign dealer at
Iientsin recently contracted for 1900 bales Of
camel'S wool, guaranteed free of dirt and sand
When the first ipstallment had passed through
the cleaning machine IS per cent of the gross
weight was found to be sand and gravel
and, besides that, the wool had been wet to
make the dirt stick in and also to make it
heavier.
SIMMONS. the well known American sculptor
at Rome, has just completed very fine statue
of Longfellow, which is to be erected in
Portland, Me. The poet is represented in a sit
ting attitude, and the likeness is said to be most
admirable, The bronze figure, which if stand
ing would be 10 feet high is to be placed on a
pedestal of polished red granite which is to be
~ feet high. The statue will be unveiled at
Portland in May.
IT takes nearly 100 000,0 900 foreign eggs a
month to keep the English in cakes and pud-
dings. The matter of the protection of the
English hen from the competition Of the pauper
FOWLS OF France has been thought so serious
that even Gladstone has paid some attention to
1t. Experts estimate that the consumption of
eggs in England is 100 year for every person.
Nearly Sl5 coo 900 paid every year for the eggs
| imported into the country.
SECRETARY OF STATE KELSEY of New Jersey
started fund some months ago for a monu-
ment over the grave of Gen. Mcclellan. He
asked subscriptions only of intimate friends of
the dead soldier. and has received about 81 900
The grave plot is too small to admit of the elab-
crate shaft the money would buy, and as
larger plot cannot be chosen until Mrs Nc
Clellan, who is in Italy, is consulted the matter
must rest until her return in the spring
GRUYERE CHEESE, which has been made by the
farmers of Jura, Switzerland. under system
by which each in turn made a cheese of the milk
OF the whole community given to him every day.
IS now made i'll factory to which all the farm
ers take their milk, and the product of which is
common property, instead Of each cheese being
the individual property of the man who made
it. This makes the cheese more uniform and
of better quality, and increases the farmers
profits.
A GIAMoRGANsHIRE BARD" recently sent a
jubilee poem to the Queen, which was returned
with the curt information that lit is a fixed
rule that her majesty does not receive poetry.n
This fixed rule however, did not prevent the
Queen from ''graciOusly accepting" some
verses by Highland poet entitled "She Noddif
TO Me, some time ago Why therefore 0aI
liant little Wales should have been SO rnthessiv
snubbed il is not erSy to understands and n js
true that there is not another sovereign in FIN
rope who would have been so ungracious to an
humblesubject ~-'
AN ITALIAN CORRESPONDENT, writing from